Golf shirt



[m 11121! Marina 1?. 674] Aizorrzey M. R. GRAY GOLF SHIRT Filed Dec, 18 1924 Dec. 28 1926.

Patented Dec. 28, 1926.

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.-

MARION R. GRAY, OF LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA.

GQLF SHIRT.

Application filed December 18, 1924. Serial No. 756,711.

Although my present invention is. referred to as a golf shirt, it may be understood to be the general object of this invention to provide a reinforced outer gar- 5 ment suitable for sport wear and especially attractive to those engaged in any active exercise in the open air, and not liable to tear under the arms.

It is an object of this invention to provide a sleeved shirt of woven textile mate rial, or the like, with reinforcements associated with openings beneath the arms of the wearer,whether for the purpose of evaporating perspiration and carrying off odors, or for the purpose of cooling and refreshing said wearer; and it is a further object of this invention to 'so form and dispose reinforced openings relatively to the seams intersecting beneath the arm of a shirt that the said openings shall not weaken or deface the garment, but shall strengthen it. I

Other objects of my invention will appear from the following description of an advantageous embodiment thereof, taken in connection with the appended claims and the accompanying drawings, in-which 'Fig. 1 is a perspective View showing one of my novel shirts as actually worn,

Fig. 2 is a detail view showing a preferred arrangement of ventilating holes beneath the arm or sleeve of a shirt, these holes being preferably arranged in rows intersecting substantially at right angles.

Referring to the details of that specific embodiment of my invention chosen for purposes of illustration, 11 may be the front of a shirt. and 12 may be the back thereof. 13 and 13 being respectively the corners of a sleeve. .As best illustrated in Fig. :2, the corners of the body elements and sleeve referred to are preferably brought together by intersecting seams 14 and 15, the former seam being carried continuously, by two substantially parallel lines of stitching. up the respective sides of the body and down the undersides of sleeves, and the latter. also comprising two parallel rows of stitching, being employed to secure the sleeve to the body of the garment.

At the intersection of the mentioned seams, and between the said parallel rows of stitching, I may provide a substantially circular reinforcement in the form of stitching; and

I ma force simultaneously ventilate the reingarment by providing an opening and working the periphery 17 of the same with buttonhole stitching, or the like. Instead of employing a single opening in the position referred to, I may optionally pro- 00 vile additional openings 18, 18 and 19, 19, symmetrically disposed on opposite sides of the opening 16, and equally spaced along the scam 15, between the parallel rows of stitching 20, 20 at the edges thereof; and, when desired, I may provide, instead of or in addition to the holes 18, 18 and 19, 19, or their equivalents, holes 21, 21' and 22, 22 correspondingly positioned along the vertical seam 14 and between the parallel rows of stitching 23, 23' thereof. For the purpose referred to, I may consider it advantageous to provide, under the arm of each shirt, nine holes arranged substantially as illustrated in Fig. 2, and all provided with buttonhole stitching, which may be of the same color as the shirt, or of a different color, as desired, these openings optionally serving not onlyto admit air beneath the arm pits of the wearer, but to produce a distinctive and'decorative effect, as well as to strengthen.

Although I, have nerein described my invention in a preferred form, I am aware that various modifications and changes may be made by those skilled in the art to which this case relates, without the slightest departure from the spirit and scope of my invention, as the same is illustrated above and in the following claims.

I claim as my invention:

1. A shirt of textile material comprising front and back elements and sleeves which are directly united by seams intersecting beneath said sleeves, said seams having reinforced apertures at the intersections thereof.

2. A shirt of textile material comprising front and back elements and sleeves which are directly united by seams intersecting beneath said sleeves, said seams having reinforccd apertures at the intersections thereof. each of said seams comprising a pair of parallel rows of stitches. and each of said, apertures being substantially circular in out-'. line and reinforced by buttonhole stitching between said parallel rows of stitches.

In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand at Los Angeles, California, this 9 day of December, 1924. 

